English Dictionary

materialism

IPA（発音記号）

/məˈtɪɹiəlɪzəm/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 廃用 稀用

Constant concern over material possessions and wealth; a great or excessive regard for worldly concerns. / (philosophy) The philosophical belief that nothing exists beyond what is physical.

日本語の意味

物質的所有物や富に対する絶え間ない関心、または世俗的な事柄への過剰な重視。 / （哲学）物理的実在以外のものは存在しないという信念。

Her constant pursuit of designer labels was a clear sign of materialism that left her emotionally unsatisfied.

彼女がデザイナーズブランドを追い求め続けるのは、物質的所有や富への執着の明らかな表れであり、精神的に満たされていませんでした。

意味（1）

Constant concern over material possessions and wealth; a great or excessive regard for worldly concerns.

We accept that a third of the population live on the poverty line. We accept that only a handful of the most exceptional of the children of the poor will make it through to a third-level education. We accept massive examples of greed and dishonesty in public life. We except the values of materialism. What do we expect then—to be left un-harassed, we who have all the privileges?

意味（2）

(philosophy) The philosophical belief that nothing exists beyond what is physical.

The result of the labours of philosophy appeared to be a total scepticism on the most important subjects of hu man duty and expectation. The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus; and this system—if system it may be called, which left them without a God, a providence, a morality, or a retribution—was the fashionable philosophy of the more cultivated classes.

意味（3）

(obsolete, rare) Material substances in the aggregate; matter.

materialisms （ plural ）